The strongest hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean have become more intense because of global warming over the past 25 years, says a new study in the current edition of the journal Nature. The findings add fuel to the simmering argument in the meteorological community about Earth’s changing climate and its relationship to the power of tropical systems worldwide.
Scientists from Florida State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison analyzed satellite data from nearly 2,000 tropical cyclones around the world from 1981 to 2006 and found that the strongest storms are getting stronger, especially over the Atlantic and Indian oceans.